Gay People Are Hunted Down and Beaten in a Country Once a Refuge
needed, and applicable, today. 1 From The Queer Sixties. Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. New York: Routledge, 1999. 2 Bronski, Michael. Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.
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Bras-Coupé was an African king enslaved in New Orleans. He was, according to the stories, striking and heroic. He danced in Congo Square, with many other enslaved people, on weekends. And everyone, from all points on the color line, admired his grace and beauty. But once he fled the plantation, his captivating movement and dignified posture were de
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There was no one to encourage them to believe that they were innocent because homosexuality in and of itself is innocent.
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Poor people, queer people, Black people, unhoused people—especially the women and gender-nonconforming people among them—to varying degrees operate outside convention because convention has rejected us.
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all of it began in killing that took place far away. That took place somewhere the people who thought of ivory as a material could not see. Killing that took place in an extraction zone.
Ray Nayler • The Tusks of Extinction
“When we have gone to Albany and spoken with lawmakers about how the industry works, the lawmakers’ jaws drop to the floor. They're shocked about what is normalized.”
This financial exploitation, Ziff argued, leads to sexual exploitation. “There's a long history of models being sent to known predators by their agents. Bill Cosby, for example,” she s... See more
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Amy Odell • Weinstein Accuser Ambra Gutierrez Takes on the Modeling Industry
Far from any queer movement or urban politics, far from academic theories of gender, lives a possibility, a true heritage of tolerance and integration. Among a people who can and have absorbed so much, whose gods are many-limbed and multigendered, whose lives are filled with all manner of suffering, sexual identity is the least of it.
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Life magazine—in an alarming article that asked, “Do the Homosexuals, Like the Communists, Intend to Bury Us?”